You are receiving this email from the Community Wellness Program, a division of Toiyabe Indian Health Project department of Preventive Medicine. This newsletter facilitates monthly community wellness updates in the areas of healthy eating, active living and smoke free environments.

We hope that you find this newsletter useful, informative and engaging. Please forward this to any other parties that you think may benefit from the content. Thank you, Rick, Kate, Serena and Katie!!

Local Program Updates

REACH:
Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health

The REACH program has been busy in various communities helping spread the word that eating healthy is fun and delicious.

Using human power to blend green smoothies!

Bishop Paiute Tribe

Earth Day 2015

We made green smoothies at the Bishop Paiute Tribe Earth Day using only human power and the fender blender!

Benton Tribe hosted an Earth Day that collected hundreds of pounds of trash from the reservation! We planted tomato starts and learned about edible native plants!

Antelope Valley Community Garden celebrated its annual garden kick-off and REACH staff helped to install a large automated irrigation system and attend the community event to help promote growing foods for communities!

The "Healthy People Radio Show" saw it's debut on KOGI, Big Pine Paiute radio, with a discussion on why we should support local food systems in the Owens Valley!

PICH: Partnerships to Improve Community Health

Theresa Stone and Michael Arnell are the first community members to use the new water fountain!

The Toiyabe Community Wellness Program is an active member of the Team Inyo for Healthy Kids coalition, whose goal is to reduce childhood obesity in Inyo County. Recently, the coalition has started a new campaign to increase easy access to water by installing water fountains throughout Inyo County. The first water fountain was installed on the corner of Academy Street and Main in Bishop, to allow students and community members easy access to fresh and free drinking water while hanging out in downtown Bishop.

Join in the excitement of a new farmers market in your community. The Bishop Paiute Tribe will be every
Friday at the Paiute Shoshone Cultural Center at 2300 W. Line.
Contact Jen Schlaich at 760-873-3584 or email jen.schlaich@bishoppaiute.org if you are interested in being a vendor or learning more about the market.

June 19: Big Pine Paiute Tribe Farmer's Market, 5:30pm - sunset

Stop by the Big Pine Paiute tribal offices to kick off the start their 3rd year as a farmer's market!! The market will be held every
Friday night through September 18th and will stay open until the sun goes down!
Visit their Facebook page at Nawanaki-ti Market or contact Alan Bacock at 760-938-2003 for more information.

Best practices, resources and healthy food tips for you and your community.

Chia, a native superfood!

The Exploring Economic and Health Impacts of Local Food Procurement report highlights how local food systems facilitate community health and stronger local economies. The report will assist communities across the country as they are creating innovative and effective ways to build procurement systems for locally produced foods for schools, hospitals, food banks, and other institutions. The report features offers a critical analysis of the literature on the economic impact of local foods and recommends effective funding strategies

There was a lot of buzz last month around active transportation. The California Department of Public Health
released a new school curriculum teaching students to walk and bike to school safely.

Safe Routes to School released
three new factsheets to help overcome obstacles and allow rural residents the health benefits of walking and bicycling.

For the month of May, residents of Alpine, Mono and Inyo Counties were encouraged to cycle for transportation, fitness, and fun by logging miles through the National Bike Challenge Website. The National Challenge runs from May to September, so if you missed the May Bike Challenge - you can still join!

Commercial Tobacco-Free Environments

#CostofsmokingCA

Eastern Sierra Tobacco Prevention Coalition

Inyo, Mono and Alpine Counties

Smoking hurts us all. The cost of smoking per resident in Inyo County is $694. Tobacco is still the leading cause of preventable death and disease; 16% of adults in Inyo County currently smoke. These were the messages we shared at the California State Capitol at the Tobacco Information & Education Days on May 12, 2015.

If you are interested in tobacco prevention in Inyo County, contact April Eagan at aeagan@inyocounty.us to learn about joining the Tobacco Prevention Coalition!

2015 National Tobacco Prevention Institute

Albuquerque, New Mexico on July 14 & 15

The National Institute serves as a forum for health and wellness advocates (Tribal, State, National, Non-Profits, etc.) to connect and share "what works" strategies, to explore issues and concerns, to discuss program and policy making and to build networks for supporting tobacco prevention, intervention and control.

The mission of Toiyabe Indian Health Project is to improve and establish programs, policies and actions which focus on developing and maintaining healthy individuals, families and Indian communities while fostering tribal sovereignty, self-sufficiency and cultural values.